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title: The most perfect local example of an ancient crater perhaps is one t… — Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The most perfect local example of an ancient crater perhaps is one that does not seem to have attracted much attention from scientific writers and lecturers, and this may be mentioned as a type of the remarkable places which build up the romantic ruggedness and savageness of our harbour-palisading h
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# Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Story of the Rocks., sentence 14

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The most perfect local example of an ancient crater perhaps is one that does not seem to have attracted much attention from scientific writers and lecturers, and this may be mentioned as a type of the remarkable places which build up the romantic ruggedness and savageness of our harbour-palisading hills.

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**Who acts:** remarkable places · **What happens:** be, not seem, attract, mention, build up, palisade · **To what, where:** one, much attention, scientific writers, this, romantic ruggedness, perfect local example

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This is a sentence of «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, The Story of the Rocks.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (remarkable places), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg73766:9:14
# text = The most perfect local example of an ancient crater perhaps is one that does not seem to have attracted much attention from scientific writers and lecturers, and this may be mentioned as a type of the remarkable places which build up the romantic ruggedness and savageness of our harbour-palisading hills.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
3	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	crater	crater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	appos	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
14	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
19	attracted	attract	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	xcomp	_	_
20	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	scientific	scientific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	writers	writer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	lecturers	lecturer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	mentioned	mention	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	type	type	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
40	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
41	build	build	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
42	up	up	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	romantic	romantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	ruggedness	ruggedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	savageness	savageness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
49	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
50	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	palisading	palisade	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	53	amod	_	_
53	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | one |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **seem** | present · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **attract** | to-infinitive · perfect |  | much attention |  | scientific writers and lecturers |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient |
| 4 | **mention** *speech: other* | may · passive |  | this |  |  |  | as a type of the remarkable places | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 5 | **build up** | present | the remarkable places | the romantic ruggedness and savageness of our palisading hills |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer ruggedness=Patient |
| 6 | **palisade** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | harbour *compound* | tree rules |
| 8 | **exemplify** |  |  | a ancient crater |  |  |  |  | nom example «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 9 | **type** |  |  | the remarkable places |  |  |  |  | nom type «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand» by James Cowan, Project Gutenberg book 73766 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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